related works
Lumen : for cello and piano / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 3231 3300 2perc cel 2hp g 2man pf str(8.8.6.4.4.)
Marsua : for mezzo soprano and string orchestra, 1996 / text: Hugo Claus, Anton Havelaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 2222 2000 timp perc hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans